Heater for poultry-houses



LU ELLA BUSBY.` HEATER FGR POULTRY HOUSES. APPLICATION FILEDSEPLZS, 1919.

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' Speccation of Letters Patent.

Patented Fully d, 192i,

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Be itknown that l, LU ELLA Bussi', a citizen of the United" States, residing at Caldwell, in the county of Sumner and State of Kansas, have invented certa-in new and useful lmprovements liiilleaters `ior Poultry-Houses, of which the `following is a specification. rllhis invention relates to poultry houses, and more particularly to heating means i'or such houses.

The object ol' the invention is to provideV a simple and eiiicient heater constructed to uniformly heat a plurality oi compartrnents` the heating pipes being protected by suit able deiiectors.

`With the foregoing and other objects in` lFig. 2 is a horizontal section with parts of the pipe protector' and deflector out.` i f ln the. embodiment illustrated, a poultry house 1 is shown rectangular in form, although obviously it may be `ot any other debroken sired coniiguration, and which is divided by till partitions 2 into a plurality ot compartments, three ot which are here shown, and numbered 3, l and 5. rlhe central compart ment 4l, which is designed to contain a heat ing stove, and in which baby chicks are intended to be housed, has a door 6 to atlord access thereto while similar' doors 3 and 5 afford access to the other compartments.

rlhe stove 7 is shown mounted in the compartment l and the heat is generated therein by means of a burner 8 supplied with fuel through a pipe 9, said fuel being gas, kerosene or any other suitable material oi this character'.

A tank 10 is disposed in a plane above the heating stove 7 and has a pipe 11 leading 'from the bottom thereof which communicates withA a horizontally disposed branch pipe 12 having a cross` pipe 13 at its outer end, said pipes 12 and 13 forming a "l"- shaped structure, the junction of the memn Ibers oi which extends into the stove 7 above ithe" burnerS and" the arms 13 being arranged transversely across the compartment l as is shown clearly in Fig. 2. A pipe 1li is positioned around the side wall oi the building 1 on its inner face passing through all of the ycompartments and is supported at a suitable Idistance above the floor by brackets 15, be ,ing preferably arranged about twelve or `eighteen inches above the floor. @ver this pipe 14 is mounted a combined protector and derlector 16 which is arcuate in cross secs tion being secured at one edge to the side walls ot the building and curves downward over the pipe or conduit 14, and directs the heati'rom the pipe toward the floor on which the chicks will huddle. lt is of course to be understood that the compartments 3 and 5 are designed to contain chicks of different sizes, the babies being placed in the central compartment where the heat is most intense.

`The tank 10 is preferably provided with a steam escape 17 so that should the water in the pipes become excessively hot, the steam generated will pass out through said escape 17 without danger oi injuring the apparatus.

lt is of course to be understood that the size oi the house and the compartments may vary and that the burner and water heatingpipes may also be of various sizes to suit the size of the building to be heated.

TWith a house constructed and heated as above described, no hovers such as are usually employed in broeders are necessary.

`since the deiiector 16 will direct the heat downwardly to the floor and keep the chicks comfortable without further protection.

From the lioregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the advantages ot the construction and' oi? the method oi operation will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art to `which the invention. appertains and while l `have described the principle ci operation of the invention together with the device which l now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, l desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative and that such changes may be madey as are within the scope oi' the claimed invention.

Having thus fully described my invention,

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what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a compartment having a heater therein; of a Water conduit arranged around the inner Wall of said compartment a tank supported above -said heater, a Tfshaped pipe having the intersection poi-tions thereof positioned over the heater, the stem of said pipe communicating with the tank and' its arms arranged transverseiy ofthe compartment and communiv.eating with said conduit on opposlte sldes of the compartment. Y

2. TheLcombinationv-With a compartment having aheater therein; of a Water conduit arranged around the inner Wall of said conn partment, brackets supporting said conduit,

Ymeans for heating the Water therein, and a 

